News from July 2019
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: TAMPA - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) and Office of Principal Legal Advisor (OPLA) met with all Florida sheriffs at this week’s Florida Sheriff’s Association meeting.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: ANCHORAGE - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lifted its campfire ban yesterday on all Southcentral and Interior Alaska BLM-managed public lands in response to recent rain and cooler temperatures that significantly reduce the risk of wildfires. A fire prevention order banning all open fires was issued by BLM Alaska July 12 in response to extreme fire danger throughout in many areas of the state.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Patrick O’Connor, 61, Waunakee, Wisconsin, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge William Conley to 84 months in federal prison for wire fraud and money laundering. O’Connor, a real estate developer and licensed real estate agent, pleaded guilty to these charges on April 4, 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: (HELENA, Mont.) - The Bureau of Land Management has issued its Record of Decision approving vegetation treatments on 968 acres of BLM lands within the 61,000-acre study area analyzed in the Tenmile-South Helena Environmental Impact Statement.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy today issued an order to Gulf LNG Liquefaction Company, LLC (GLLC) approving exports of domestically produced liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Gulf LNG Liquefaction Project, which will be located in Jackson County, Mississippi...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington man pled guilty today to a federal drug charge, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. George Gordon, Jr., 46, entered a guilty plea to an indictment charging him with possession with the intent to distribute 40 grams or more of fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: Dawn Bennett Misappropriated Investors’ Funds, Including Using Them to Pay a Website Operator to Arrange for Priests in India to Perform Religious Ceremonies to Ward Off Federal Investigators.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Attorney General Bill Barr, Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Division...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington man who helped organize a scheme to mail marijuana from California to Huntington over a period of several years pleaded guilty today to a federal drug charge, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. James Waylon Molinaro, 43, entered a guilty plea to possession...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Raytown, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Orlando Hernandez, age 33, formerly of Florida, was sentenced on July 30, 2019, by United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion, to serve an additional fifteen months in prison on the charge of assault on a corrections officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: Defendant allegedly met victim while playing Minecraft video game online.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, sent a letter to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Acting Commissioner Mark Morgan requesting documents relating to the Committee’s investigation into secret Facebook groups containing offensive content posted by current and former Border Patrol agents who may still be working with immigrants and children.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Pine Ridge, South Dakota, woman convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: On Saturday and Sunday, August 3-4, we’re heading to the picturesque Pocono Mountains’ village of Moscow PA. Visit the restored passenger station and freight depot. Light refreshments and souvenirs will be available at the Moscow Station. Sales support the restoration of the park’s Boston & Maine #3713...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A retired Santa Ana Police officer was charged today by a federal grand jury that accused him of violating the civil rights of a man by using unreasonable force during an arrest and then lying about the incident in official reports.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Pine Ridge, South Dakota, woman convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Missouri has filed a notice of intent to seek the death penalty against two men previously charged in two area murders.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A 68-year-old Cabell County was sentenced after pleading guilty to possession of over 150 images of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Lanny Neece, of Huntington, was sentenced to 18 months in prison by United States District Judge Robert C. Chambers. After Neece is released from prison, he will be on supervised release for five years, and will also be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 31, 2019
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today released the following statement after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it has withdrawn the proposed determination it issued in 2014 for the Pebble mine project in southwest Alaska.
